Representation of intellectual property for multidisciplinary industrial engineering model system

Abstract

One of the most dynamically developing applications of industrial electronics is active representation of product information in cyber-physical systems for high level engineering problem solving. Recently, modeling in industrial product lifecycle management (PLM) systems was extended to higher abstraction as the conventional physical level. Long way on development of integrated, active knowledge driven, and intelligent computing based engineering problem solving reached application of high level multidisciplinary model and integration of this model with physical world objects. Systems engineering (SE) based model represents systems which drive a product and serves engineering activities for product lifecycle. For this purpose, four leveled RFLP model structure serves representation of requirements against product (R), function structure to fulfill the requirements (F), logical structure of product (L), and feature driven structure of physical product objects (P). In the meantime, represented active knowledge is being integrated gradually into organized intellectual property (IP) of company. Laboratory of Intelligent Engineering Systems (LIES) of Obuda University recognized the above development and initiated research in active IP driven and high abstraction based modeling of complex industrial products. In the scope of this work, the initiative (I), behavior (B), context (C), and action (A) structure was proposed as representation of driving knowledge content (DKC) for application at generation of elements and features in RFLP structured product model. In this paper, elements and connections of system based product model is outlined. Next, the IBCA structure is introduced using levels of abstraction and connections of its elements. Following this, the question is attempted to answer that how DKC can effectively contribute to IP. Finally, implementation issues are discussed.